LIVE: STS-115 Flight Day 6

• #160 by dutch courage on 14 Sep, 2006 17:36
• SRB video will be shown again during the Video File in 10 minutes.
  
• #161 by dutch courage on 14 Sep, 2006 17:43
• Wow! Great video of the solar array deploy!
  
  Fantastic video and SOUND of the SRB!
  
• #162 by RedSky on 14 Sep, 2006 18:14
• Everyone... try to catch today's Videofile showing all the SRB tape.  On the second one they showed.... after the parachute deploy, you can catch a glimpse of the nose-cap coming down on its chute too... then just after SRB splashdown, you see it splashdown just a bit away in the distance.
  
  Also, I don't recall the downward-looking camera views last time... looking straight at the leading edge of the wings, and the pad on launch.  Incredible.
  
  
• #163 by chksix on 14 Sep, 2006 18:25
• Very nice views! Too bad that the WB-57 tracking wasn't very good. They should develop an IR tracking system that locks the scope to the hottest part of the flame and then allow the operator to insert an offset to slew the camera slightly forwards to cover the whole vehicle. There are military tracking devices that can lock on to IR sources with extreme accuracy.
• #164 by Chris Bergin on 14 Sep, 2006 18:27
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  RedSky - 14/9/2006  7:01 PM
  
  Also, I don't recall the downward-looking camera views last time... looking straight at the leading edge of the wings, and the pad on launch.  Incredible.
  
  

  
  They did have that for STS-121.
• #165 by lucspace on 14 Sep, 2006 18:31
• Don't know about you guys... but this is what spaceflight is all about to a large extent... breathtaking pictures! Not before the WB-57 images did I really get a sense of just how fast a Shuttle accelerates. Amazing stuff that's a pretty good PR tool ass well, I imagine...
• #166 by Mark Dave on 14 Sep, 2006 20:25
• My favorite images are from the SRB cameras.
• #167 by astrobrian on 14 Sep, 2006 21:26
• My first day back to work and now they show the SRB tapes waaaaaaaaa looking forward to the posting here soon
• #168 by psloss on 15 Sep, 2006 00:43
• The SRB video was largely the same, though edited differently from last launch; they did show the "side" cameras, which were used to collect data on popcorning in the mid/late 90s...one thing I hadn't seen before was the frustum landing on its chute after the booster was in the water:
  

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• #169 by MKremer on 15 Sep, 2006 02:16
• I don't recall on the older videos being able to watch the nozzles fall and hit the water after they're sheared, either.